By P Chingkhei
IMPHAL, Aug 4: Inspector Thaingambou, who became an overnight sensation after he was captured on lens when he pulled the hair of a girl student, during the violent tussle that broke out in front of the New Secretariat on Monday between agitating students and police personnel is now being advised by doctors for bed rest for at least a week`™s time.
Surprisingly, as it may sound to the Manipuri masses, as the photo presents as some sort of `proof` of the atrocities committed by police personnel.
But, the police officer suffered a torn ligament under his eyes and nasal area and had to be admitted to RIMS casualty for medical treatment.
Veteran officer Thaingambou was punched by one of the students on his face and as the situation had become increasingly volatile after the students broke open the main gate of the New Secretariat, the outnumbered police personnel was ordered to baton charge in order to maintain order and security within the Secretariat where the highest officials of the state were present.
He is also most likely to undergo a minor surgery if his health condition does not improve in that given period of time, as per the doctors who attended him at the RIMS hospital.
On Monday, when the incident occurred, the law enforcing officer was told by his superiors to guard the premise of New Secretariat as large number of agitated students along with JCILPS activists was trying to force their way in into the office of the Education Minister to handover their textbooks as a symbol of showing their frustration over the government`™s indifferent approach towards the implementation of Inner Line Permit System.
Meanwhile, a high ranking police officer, on the condition of anonymity, observed that following the accidental discovery that some of the girl students were wearing trousers inside their school uniformed sarongs and shoes that are not part of the school uniforms, it possibly meant that they had come prepared to engage in any forceful tussle if situation demands it which kills the concept of peaceful settlement of matters.